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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

| A FINE at Readsville, n. c., destroyed
| the Piedmont hotel and nine other build
| ings. the loss being 100000.
THE pill mandatory of Brent, Good i
Co., on Murray street, New York, was
barned Tuesday morning, the loss being
about $4,000.
The Chicago glycerineworks, on the
corner of Clark and forty-frst street,
valued at $4,000 were Sunday morning
destroyed by fire.
The Opera House Block and other
buildings at Mercer, Pa. were destroyed
Thursday morning by an incendiary fire.
The loss is $4,000, with $4,000 insur-
nee.
By the ex plosion of a car load of giant
powder near Fort Scott, a man named
Scott Hooker vas instantly killed, fifteen
cars were blown to atoms, and $4,000
worth of plate glass was broken.
FIRE at Dallas, Texas, Wednesday morn
ing destroyed the wholesale grocery
houses of T. l.. MarsaIis & Co. and Arm
strong Brothers, and the Wholesale liquor
house of S. B. Hopkins & Co. The
loss is about 100000, with f225,000 insur-
ance.
THE boilers of the Harvey paper mill,
at Wellsburg, W. Va, exploded Wednes
afternoon, wrecking the building and set
ting the ruins on fire. Two men were in
stanuy killed and two others received ser
ious injuries.
In the steel works of Spang, Clifford j.
Co., six miles east of Allegheny City,
battery of four steel boilers exploded
with such force as to wreck the bar mill
department. A fireman was instantly
killed, and another employe soon died
from his injuries. The mill was one of
the frs ito use natural gas. Three hun
dred yards from the scene of the explo-
sion was found piece of boiler weighing
$500 pounds.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
WASHINGTON.

THE circulation of the standard silver
dollar is steadily decreasing. The mum
Der outstanding is 5S,63+ ,267.
the postoffice appropriation bill and a
bill setting aside $4,000 for special
distribution of seed in Texas by the COM
missioner of agriculture.
THE postmaster at GAINESVILLE, Wis,
made application for the establishment
of the free delivery system there. The
postmaster general has ordered an in
spector TO that place to investigate the
matter.
The reduction in the national debt dur
ing December amounted to S9,35S, ,202,
and for the first six months of the cur
rent fiscal year S47,151,s ,ss7. The net
cash balance in the treasury on the first
of January was 81, ,196, ,632, against S4o,-
osS,556 on the first of last December.
THE amount required to carry out the
provisions of the Mexican pension bill is
placed by the secretary of the interior at
S4,663, lo4, and S267, 500 is asked for an
Increase of clerical force in the pension
office.
Mr.. CULLoM presented a set of resolu-
tions from the Thirty-fifth General as
sembly of the State of Illinois praying
for the passage of the invalid pension
sion bill providing for the care and main
tenance of all honorably discharged sol
diers whose names are not on the pension
roll.
SENATOR BscK introduced bill to
amend the oIeomargarine act, reducing
the annual tax on wholesale dealers In
oieomargarine from $3.50 to Sfeo. and the
license tax on retail dealers from S4S tc
$la per annum. The hsense tax on manu-
facturers of oleomargarine is left un
changed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
CANALS IN ILLINOIS.
An Amendment 10 the Sundry Civil Bill to
Provide for Them,

An Amendment To the Sundr. Civil Bill to
Provide for Them
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Sen. Cnllom to-
day Introduced an amendent TO the sundrv
civil app >opt%ation bill, directing the SEQ
retary of War TO cssse q survey of the
Illinois and Desplsires river, from
Las ..lle to Joliet, with view to the i'm
provement of the rivers so as to maintain
waterway leo feet wide and seven feet
deep between the places named. The
secretary is also directed to cause sur.
vey to be INSIDE and a canal located from
Joliet to lake Michigan at or near Chica-
go, with dimensions the same as those
specified for the waterway and with locks
$50 feet long and IS feet wide. He is fur
Their required to Institute surveys for
canal SO feet wide, and seven feet
deep, with locks 40 feet long
and SO feet wide, from the Illinois river
at or near Hennepin, TO the Mississippi
river at or above the mouth of the Rock
river. One hundred thousand dollars are
Appropriated for these purposes. Ii is
further directed that the work be not
commenced nor any of the money ex-
pended until the state of Illinois cedes
to the United States all rights and titles
IN any improvements now existing on
the Illinois river, and to so much of the
Michigan canal as may be required bv
the United States.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
GENERAL NOTES.

EARTHQUAKE shocks and loud rum
'lings early Monday morning disturbed
and excited the inhabitants of towns in
Western Maryland. As the country is
mountainous, volcanic upheaval is
feared.
VERDICT of $4,000 damages has been
awarded to a Philadelphia newshoy who
was pushed off car of the Traction
company and had to suffer the amputa-
tion of leg
ANOTHER dynamite cartridge has been
exploded on the GeaIy street cable road
in San Francisco. A large piece of iron
has been broken out of n car wheel.
OK the rolls of the Chicago pension
agency was placed the name of Frank A.
Mannson, of Manistique, Michigan, one
of the survivors of the Jeanette Artic
expedition who will receive thirty dol
lars per month.
A STRONG effort will be made at Spring
field ILL., to secure the passage OF bill ap
propriating Sl50,Oo0 for an industrial
school or home for the blind.
AN unknown man, crazed, half clad
and terribly emaciated, has been found
wandring in the mountains of North
Carolina. He Is supposed to have been
driven insane by the earthquake at Char
lesion, Aug. 81.
In the village of uniontown, Ohio, since
Monday morning, five married ladies of
middle age have dropped dead from sup
posed heart disease. Their names are
Mrs, ;. Ferber, Mrs. Louis Archer, Mrs. S.
Johnson, Mrs. II. Harsel and Mrs. s. Pow
ell. 1t is thought that fright, resulting
from the first sudden death brought on
the others.
TRUNK directed to j. A. Wilson was
opened Wednesday at Baltimore and
found TO contain the headless body of a
man. The feet, legs and one arm were
also Topped off, and were packed with the
body, but the head was missing. The
trunk had been shipped from New York
and the calico shirt covering the remains
had on it the name c. Cankholdt. In the
trunk were cards bearing the name of a
BROOKLYN butcher.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04

the year 1887, and $4,000 for the wear
1883. Mr.. Powell: Relating to Jurors
fees in circuit courts. Mr.. Challoner (by
request): Providing for exemption from
poll tax of honorably discharged soldiers,
sailors and marines. Mr.. Grimm moved
to suspend the rules and take up No. II,
s., relating to the Odd Fellows Mutual
Life Insurance company. The rules were
suspended and the bill passed. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Humphrey the assembly ad
iourned.
TUESDAY, Feb. l.
Sendte-The following bills were intro
duced: Sen. Mason: To amend the revised
statutes relating to the collection of
taxes. Sen. De Graft: To construct a
ferry across the Mississippi river from a
point in Buffalo county, Wisconsin, to
the city of Waukesha, in Minnesota. Sen.
Conklin: (by request), To appropriate to
j. b. Norton, assignee of Tenney & Car
penter, state printers in 1879, the sum of
$3.50. The following bills were passed.:
To make every general term of the cir-
cult court of Vernon county, special
term for the whole judicial circuit. To
facilitate the sale OF lands by public
commissioners in township z, north of
range z, west, in the county of Grant. Ad-
journed.
House-The following bills were intro
duced: By Mr.. Winans: To amend the re-
vised statutes relating to the adoption of
children. Mr.. S. S. Miller: To provide
for punishment of extortion in certain
cases. Mr.. Luchsinger: To amend revis-
ed statutes relating to the collection of
Tn
vent contagious diseases among domestic
animals, and to provide for state veter-
marian at salary of $4,000 per annum,
with further sum of ST. 800 for necessary
expenses. The house went into a com
mittee of the whole, when all bills in the
general file were considered and report
ed to the house. The honse then ordered
several bills to be engrossed and read
a third time. The bill providing that ex-
empt personal property shall descend to
the family of the deceased, free from
claims of creditors wGs indefinitely post
ponei, and the assembly adjourned.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04

murder and conspiracy in the Haddock
affair, appeared in court at Sioux City,
Monday, and entered pleas of not guilty.
In saloon on South Water street,
Chicago, early Wednesday morning,
John Watts was killed with dirk in the
hands of William Hayes, professional
thief.
ONE Edward Gilroy, employed by Jas
Campbell i Co., live stock dealers of
Chicago and Kansas City, to purchase
cattle, has been arrested on the charge of
embezzIing $4,000.
HENRY SCHWARTZ, an alleged bigamist,
was released from jail in Chicago on bond
of $4,000. at the doorway he was arrest
ed by officers from Grundy county on in
dictments for the Rock Island train rob
berry and for murder. He was taken by
special train to Morris.
AT Leavenworth, 80 masked men broke
into the Jail, took out a negro ravisher
named Richard Wood, and dragged him
to death in the streets by rope attached
to the saddle of a masked horseman. No
effort is likly to be made to arrest the
lynchers.
SCHWARTZ, in prison at Morris, H.,
charged with the murder of Express Mes
senger Nichols and with participating in
the Rock Islands train robbery. re-
mains unusually calm and collected, ex-
hibiting not the least symptom of ner-
vousness. He shoutly maintains his in
nocence, and all efforts to ''pump', him
prove futile.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04

an amdenment was adopted requiring the
experts provided for in Swineburn's
amendment to report what means should
be taken to exterpate hog cholera.
The committee then rose without fur
ther action. AS the legislative day of
Thursday was still continuing, unanimous
consent was required for holding weekly
night sessions for the consideration of
pension bills and Wallace, of louisiana.
obJecSing, and the house adjourned until
tomorrow.
SATURDAY, Jan. %.
Senate-The senate bill to amerd the
law establishing the Yellowstone park
which was under discussion yesterday
was taken up and further discussed
On motion of Hoar the bill was amend
ed by inserting a provision for an appeal
to the district court of Wyoming terri
tory IN cases of imprisonment and it was
adjourned.
House-On motion of Lanhom, (Tex.l
the bill was passed appropriating
ten thousand dollars to enable
she commissioner of agriculture to
make a special distribution of seeds in
the drought stricken counties of Texas
into committee of the: whole on the post
office appropriation bill. The bill was pass
ed. The house again went into commit
tee of the whole on the District of Co.
lumbia appropriation bill and after a
brief debate the committee rose. The
bill was passed and the house adjourned.
MONDAY, Jan. 81.
Senote-The senate proceeded to the con-
sideration of the sundry civil appropria-
ton bill. Allison, who has charge of the
bill, stated that the committee on
appropriations had not added a single
item for public buildings not al
ready authorized by law but the
bill had been reported in the house
even before the estimates had been
printed and the senate committee had
felt 1t its duty to supply the amount for
public buildings which was about one and
half million dollars. After a discussion
IN which Allison furnished every detail in
connection with the bill the reading of the
bill was resumed. After disposing of 56
pages of the bill out of the 1O4 the SEN
ate adjourned.
House-A resolution of inquiry relative
to needed coast defences was offered by
Mr.. Lawler and referred. The house
then went into committee of the whole
on the agricultural appropriation bill.
After a slight amendment the bill
was reported to the house and passed.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on she bill to consolidate GER
tain bureaus of the navy department. At
ter brief discussion the committee rose
and the house adjourned.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
APPROACHING A CRISIS.
The Strikers Threaten TO Resort TO
the Irish Plan of Campaigning.
The Calling Out of Freight Handlers
the Most Serious Blow Yet.
Italians Defeated With Almost Com
plete Disaster by Soudan Arabs.
THE STRIKES.

\ Scheme TO Appropriate Rents to Support the
Strikers under Consideration.
New YORK, Feb. 1.-The Tribune TO
morrow will say: 1t is stated that the next
step to be taken by the leaders of the
strikers is to put into operation the Irish
plan of campaign, that is, orders will be
issued to all the members of the knights
of labor and other organizations which
can be controlled by district assembly
No. 40, to refuse to pay any rent to
landlords, but to pay the rem: money
into the fund which will go to
support the strikers. This plan has been
discussed in all seriousness by the strik-
ers and 1t is asserted positively by some
of them that it will be put into operation
next Monday. When asked what would
be done with the evicted people, one
of them replied: "You can't evict a whole
CITY," The striking Lougshoremen have
issued an appeal asking for contributions
from all sources, saying that an injury
to one is the concern of all.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
Truckers and Pliers Go Out.

New YORK, Feb. 1.-The longshoremen
truckers and pliers and other numerous
branches of workmen who are members
of the Longshoremen's union employed
or the railroad piers at the North river
turned out at O'Clock to-day. The men
on the Lehigh Valley pier No. 8, the Penn
sylvania piers II, 8 and 16, the Delaware,
Lackawanna d. Western and New York,
Lake Erie d Western, numbering near
ly 1000 men, quit work by order
of the Longshoremen's union. The
Lehigh Valley shut down the pier gates
and about score of men remained at
work on the piers of the Pennsylvania and
New York, Lake Erie d. Western.
The agents of the companies state that
the inconvenience will be but temporary
as they will p ut other men to work at once,
and that traffic will not be much impeded
by the strike,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
THE LOGAN-BLAIR PENSIONS.


Objective Points Advanced by the Commit
WASHINGTON, Feb. LIN its adverse re-
port upon the senate bill granting pen
sion to Irs. Logan the committee on in
valid pensions of the house says that
should congress pass the bill and the pre-
cedent set by it should he carried out it
would increase the pension rolls 81 900, :
600 annually. In the majority of cases,
as in this case, no relief from
actual smbarrassments or poverty would
be afforded. 1t was well known that
thousands of poor and aged widows of
brave and worthy soldiers were denied the
pittance of $I2 pei month because of
their inability to connect the death of
their husbands with their military ser
vice while in this case no sort of claim
was advanced that the death of Gen. Lo-
gan was attributable to his military ser
vice. II was a we'll known fact that
Mrs Logan was in possession Of
an ample estate, and while the
committee entertain the highest re-
gard for her both on account of the high
character and personal worth as well as
on account of the brave and gallant rec
ord of Gen. Logan rs soldier and his
useful sposless record ~ civilian and
statesman, they believe that the passage
of this and all similar bills would be in
the direction of building up in this coan-
try an aristOcracy contrary 70 the very
principles of an equal government for all
for which Gen. Logan 30 calamity fought
in the war and 90 ably contendsd in times
Of pesce-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, February Flour Dull and un-
changed. Whoat-Opened with show .ot exc te-
ment occasioned by the reported panic on Paris
bourse, and sharp decline In French Tentss at
81 for seller May and closed 544ss lower; TN
for seller cash; 77s4 for seller March; SO Ills
for seller May. Corp-Steady with no material
change; 35z for seller cash; s5 7-ie for seller
March; soss for seller May. oan-Steady and
unchanged Rye-Qu'et at ST. Barey-Duii at
5oG5s. Prime Tlmo,by-1.ss. Flax-fo5.
whisky-Lls Provisions showed considerable
animation and the tone Of the m .rket on May
pork declined s51s71c from the highest poin
later, advanced 221xc. Pork-isso for seller
cash; IL Is for seller March. i2. IS for seller
May. Lard-s42lz for seller cash; $50 for
se Her March; dez1x for seller May; short ribs.
e.ao; short clear, s5J; Shoulders, 5z5as as5e;
Butter-DuIl; creamery, 2oG2s; dairy. HGzi.
Cheese Weak, full cream cheddsrs. 1210
is14, flats, izlx4Is: young Americas, l3l13z;
skins, ~. Eggs-2sG2s. Hides and taliow
unchanged.
-Four Receipts. %. 600: shipments. 80. .ooc.
wbeat-Reoeipts, 30 900: shipments, 1900
corn-Recespss, 1900: shipmests 1900
oats-R-ceipss, 1850 shipments, 1o7.ooo
Rye-Receipss, aoos; shipments. none.
Bariey-Receips. 70 600: shipnienis, 81 900.
CHICAGO Feb. is-The Drovers' Journal
ports: Casri--Eec-ipts. 7coo; SLOW, heavy cat-
tie lower; shipping steers, +o03.4 4s. stockers
and .eeders, 2-<o03 50; fsocy. $50: COWS, bulls
and mixed, i.75a8 50; bulk 2.so1s.oo. Texas
cattle, 24o02 &C Hogs-R-ceiptz, 70 900; open
ed strong and closed solos lower: rough and
mixed. $500 90; packilx and shipping, 40
Obs; light. 43o4.G- skips-22s04. o.
sheep-Reseipu. 5000; slow. l00isc lower:
natives : oO05.os; western. oo1s 50. lambs.
4-o005 CO.
The Drovers' Journal special london cable
gram quotes The best American beeves lively and
steady - 1I1<o per .. dressed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
A BATTLE IN SOUDAN.
The Defeat of the Italians Announced in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies.

The Defeat of the Italians Announced in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies.
ROME, Feb. Premier Deprita in
formed the italian chamber of deputies
to-day that there had recently been severe
fighting in that part of the soudan
where occupation was being attempted by
Italy in understanding with England.
He said this fighting had resulted in an
almost complete disaster to the
Italian forces engaged in conjunction
with Abyssinian troops in attempting to
release Kas.ola, which has been besieged
by hostile Arabs ever..since the beginning
of the Soudan war by the late Edmot.
But ninety wounded reached Massowah
after the battle. This statement made
a profound sensation in the chamber
Premier Deprita then added that the ItaI-
ian commander recalled his troops from
the advance, and concentrated them at
Massowah. The radicals laughed ironi-
cally at this. The government has now
proposed bill for an appropriation of
81 100000, with which to send italian re-
Inducements to Massowah. The cham
Der at once approved the bill by an
almost unanimous vote.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
Strikers Attempt to Blow Up Vessel.

New YORK, Feb. 1.-Captain Gastlin, of
the steamboat Fsquad, reported to Super
lntendent Murray aid Inspector Byrnes
to-day the result of his investigation
into the explosion of dynamite on the
Guyandotte, of the Old Dominion line,
which occurred yesterday. The report
was not made public. The steamer Guy
andotte, which was partially wrecked was
to-day plaoed alongside the company's
pier. She will start again this afternoon.
She was thoroughly searched to see if
there were any more explosives on board
but nothing was found. Officers were
stationed at the gangways to scrutinizs
sthe people coming on board. The dam
age to the ship will be about 5000. The
president of the old Dominion line has
offered reward of $4,000 for the arrest
and conviction of the miscreant who
placed the internal machine on the
Guyondotta yesterday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
The Most Serious Blow YET

NEw YORK, Feb. 1.-The extension of
the strike TO the freight handlers on the
railroad piers of New York, is the most
serious blow to commerce that the union
men have struck. The effect of 1t on one
road, the Jersey Central, it was admitted
at the office on the dock this morning,
was almost complete suspension of
business. The men turned out So sud
denly that the company was left at a
great disadvantage, and its inability to
deliver freight was the cause of much in.
convenience to merchants
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04

similar report was presented in the
case of the senate bill to increase the
pension of the widow of General Frank
Blair. The republican members of the
committee also presented minority re-
port earnestly recommending the passage
of the bill to pension Mrs. Logan. The
report after reciting the brilliant career
of Gen. Logan. says, that it is reasonably
certain that MS death was the direct re.
salt of his military service, and that his
transcending achievements were volun-
tary contrib bution of his splendid military
genius, inspired by convictions of duty
and patriotic impulses. seldom equalIed
and never excelled
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
TREASURY NOTES.
Information Sent to the House in Regard to
Them

Information Sent to the House in Regard to
Them.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE secretary of
the treasury to-day transmitted To the
house in reply to the resolution of that
body calling for information on various
points. The secretary says: / should not
except under fresh instructions from
congress, conceive it my duty to eYpend
any portion OF the money appropriated
by the act approved August 4, 1886, in is
suing treasury notes of large denomina-
tion in lieu of small denomination can
celIed or retired, nor has that or any other
money belonging to the government of
the United States been expended for
such purpose. The secretary states that
from August 4, 1886, 81 and 81 notes to
the amount of S7,789, ,939 we're destroyed
but that it is impossible to fix tho sum
which has been expended in their destruc-
ton, because of the mixed character of
the denominations of the mutilated
money handled by the redemption bu-
reau of the treasury. No ones or twos
have been issued in their stead. OF the
$7,79S.939 mutilated ones and two re
deemed, cancelled and destroyed since
August 4, nor instead of any
other ones or twos, or $4,000 or
$1,000 or $1,000 notes likewise
cancelled and destroyed, no ones or
twos have been issued since July 1885.
He then calls attention to the fact that
the 81 and 81 notes destroyed have been
more than replaced by the 81 and 81 GER
tifcates issued between August 31st and
December 81, 1856, which amounted to
$8,715,939.
To Increase the Signal Service Fund.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The section of
the sundry civil bill increasing the signal
service fund passed the senate to-day.
1t is understood that if it becomes law
it may enable the establishment of nd
ditional stations in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Woman's Luck.
Special to the DrNocRAT.
WAsHfSGTos, Feb. Miss Anna b
Stow, of Wisconsin, has bean appo inted
translator of the interior department,
with salary of 5000 per year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-04
The Freight Handlers Carry out Their Threat
and Strike.

New YORK, Feb. 1.-The freight hand
lers ON tho Pennsylvania piers along
North river sent in formal demand
yesterday for an increase of wages wit h
threat that they would strike to-day.
They received no answer, and in conse-
quence struck. They sent delegation
to the office of Agent Bowman, who re
fused to see any except those represent
ing his own employees. He told them the
company could not grant an advance.
Bowman told the committee who re-
mainea, that the men would never be
taken back. Seven of the men returned
to work.
The freight handlers on the Lehigh
Valley railroad, at pier ?, North river,
numbering one hundred and fifty men,
struck at o'clock this afternoon.